The bullets that killed you, made us alive

2009-07-22T19:54:00.000-07:00

The recent events that are taking place in home land are not something to ignore. In a glance, 85% of the people voted in this election that is unprecedented in Iran and also in the world somehow. Religious, non-religious, young, old, Iranians inside and outside of the country participated in this election, many for the first time. What was the motive? The answer is quite simple. They hated the incumbent president Ahmadinejad, they wanted anyone other than him. In spite of the fact that they knew it is not going to be a fully democratic election. Because the candidates must be approved by a special counsel that its members are appointed by supreme leader, directly or indirectly! They also had witnessed some meddling of millenarian and non-millenarian groups in former elections. But almost this time unanimously the majority agreed that the policies of the current president might lead to complete breakdown of this ancient country after 7000 years. On top of that they had agreed that there seems to be no other way other than step by step reform. In other words, no matter how terrible the situation was, still they had the right to choose their favourite president among the nominees. But what happened? Apparently they were wrong! With this obvious fraud in the election, they felt to be humiliated and reactions that happened . . .

What I can say as a person who has long lived there and with a fairly proper knowledge of its recent history is that, it is not the matter of an election anymore! A movement has born. It may not succeed immediately, but it does have the potential for a positive change. Usually this sort of movements has been ended up to a significant achievement that the most important and recent one was 1979 revolution. However predicting the exact path of this movement is something that even experts on Iran’s issues don’t claim that and so do me. But I am so pleased that the people have recognized that nothing is going to change unless they change themselves that is the story of this movement.

If you have studied the history of countries under dictatorship, you probably know how much the dictators are sensitive about even tiniest showing of objection. The situation is even worse for those ones who love to be democratic in the eyes of rest of the world. That is why continues unrest and demonstration cripple them down in a fairly short time. More specifically about Iran, the people have learnt precious lessons from former movements. That’s why sometimes they are showing this defiance in a peaceful and effective enough way that is getting out of governments’ control. It is as simple as wearing a special color. Yes! It does have a color, it is green. The top color of our flag, like reborn of a nation as the nature wakes up from sleep in the spring. Green reminds us brave hearts that scarified their own life for freedom and their fellow citizen over the course of history up to now. Green is the peace message of real Iranian for the other nations, a color that has spread in the whole world and was top news of all channels and websites for one week and it is still in the progress. The progress that should go on till the day we will take our votes and our beloved Persia back from the evils. And here is the key phrase, the bullets that killed you, made us alive.

Birthday of my weblog

2009-02-15T16:09:00.000-08:00

Birthday anniversary, an excellent alibi to start something new. I started to have a personal weblog in Persian since about two years ago. It was a really good experience to discover myself more. Because I do believe when you write something you can see aspects of your personality that were invisible before. Writing in every language has its own special characteristic. I mean with writing in a new language you add some characteristics to your spirit that let you see the world from another aperture or window.

Necessity for writing caused me to do this. Actually I don’t care whether somebody will read these notes or not. I just think loudly and write it down. I used to put one poem in each of my posts in Persian weblog. I plan to do the same for English one. Either I will translate them personally or I will use from other’s work. First one would be a short poem from famous Iranian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet, Khayyam. This poem encourage to appreciate the seconds and enjoy your life at the moment in the best way that is possible!

Khayyam, if with wine you are drunk be happy,
If seated with a moon-faced (beautiful), be happy,
Since the end purpose of the universe is nothing-ness;
Hence picture your nothing-ness, then while you are, be happy!

Chalice of life

The bullets that killed you, made us alive

Birthday of my weblog